What I hoped would be a once or twice a week update has failed horribly. I begin again with a renewed hope of keeping the blog updated with our progress, at least mine as I wont speak for what Lisa has to say.
Let’s just begin with the first couple of weeks have been pretty tough. I have always been someone who eats what he wants when he wants which has pretty much led to the position I am in now. Having to change the way I live everyday has had it’s trials for sure. I now wake up to some kind of breakfast made at home and I try to stick to below a few hundred whereas before IF I even ate breakfast it was a fast food stop on the way to work.
Lunch has been the one meal that hasn’t had big big changes. While we stay away from the likes of McD’s and Burger King, and replaced it with Subway or another low calorie option we do still go out for lunch as it is what time allows. Neither of us are up early enough in the morning to make a lunch and prepackaged crap is just as bad as eating fast food in a lot of cases. Either way lunch accounts for between 600-900 calories depending on the day of the week. We have most days scheduled as to where we go to help the routine.
Dinners have been the big tribulation so far. Lisa has been trying a lot of new recipes not many of which have been to our liking so finding meals for dinner that both taste good an provide for a low dose of calories has been tough.
Overall snacking has gone down for both of us. A few 100 calories snacks here and there or a smoothie pretty much round out the day. The result for 2 weeks of this was a loss of right round 10 pounds. Hopefully next week I can follow it up with some more loss or at least allow for verification that last week wasn’t a fluke.
